Posted at 8:02 PM on 9-2-10 by Rob T Firefly
After getting in touch with some attendees who, like us, come into the city from out-of-town, we must announce that due to Hurricane Earl, we won’t be attending tomorrow’s meeting. With areas like coastal New Jersey, Connecticut, and Long Island where many of us bridge-and-tunnel types live expected to be hardest-hit by the storm, with the additional possibilities of mass-transit failure and Citigroup locking up early, we feel we’re better off not advising the trip in for the meeting. For those of you who feel you can safely get there and back again and are willing to defiantly get a meeting going regardless, best of luck! We’d love to see photos.
For the rest of us, we’ll have doing a make-up meeting next Friday, September 10th. We’ll meet up in Citigroup like always, though since we’ll probably have a smaller group things may wrap up earlier, traditions may be changed or abandoned. We’ll wing it, and we’d love to have you there winging it with us.
Who: Us, and hopefully you.
What: The NYC2600 meeting, make-up edition.
When: Friday, September 10, 5:00 PM ~ 7:00 PM?
Where: Citigroup Center, 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue
Why: To meet up, eat food, do stuff, and make up for some lost time!
See you there!
tags: events, meetings, nyc
Posted at 6:40 PM on 9-1-10 by Rob T Firefly
We are keeping an eye on the news regarding Hurricane Earl, which might wash out our meeting this week. If conditions turn out to be unsafe on Friday we may be compelled to declare next Friday, September 10, our meeting’s rain date. Stay tuned for updates, and use your own best judgment.
tags: meetings, nyc
Posted at 6:46 PM on 10-30-09 by Rob T Firefly
A bunch of us worked out our plan of attack over IMs. We’re going to start gathering in front of the entrance to the Hotel Pennsylvania at around 3. We’ll hang out there and wait for more of us until around 4:30, when we’ll grab a C/E to Spring St, and meet the rest of us by the line-up area. Where is unforeseeable; they block off the zone in weird and different ways every year, so we’ll have to find a place and wing it. I’ll have my phone on me and will be trying to corral folks via calls and texts, so if I don’t have your info and you would like me to, get in touch!
There are more details in a mass BCC’d email I just sent out to everyone I know of who expressed interest in going. If you want to join up and you haven’t yet gotten an email from me, get in touch and I’ll forward it on to you!
Also: yay!
tags: events, fun, nyc
Posted at 7:03 AM on 10-28-09 by Rob T Firefly
Want to see something scary?
This Saturday, you are cordially invited to join us for our traditional tomfoolery in the Village Halloween Parade. A bunch of us participate every year, and it never fails to be lots of fun!
The parade is of course the main Halloween celebration in New York – and many say the entire country, if not the entire world. Starting at Sixth Street and Broome Avenue, the parade marches uptown all the way to 21st street. Anyone in costume is welcome to march in the parade, and your fellow paraders will be all over the spectrum from the quickest face-paint job or dollar-store mask to creations so elaborate your head will spin. For more info, check out the event’s Wikipedia article and official site.
Many NYC2600 folks, including this editor, occasionally or regularly participate in the parade. In years past, many of us have managed to gather before the parade, dig each other’s costumery, perform at the event together, and hang out afterward on the one truly wild event of this scale our town has left.
The plans can be finalized via this post in our Livejournal forum. (A Livejournal account isn’t required to post comments, anonymous comments are enabled. An OpenID will also work.) You can use those comment threads to discuss meeting up, or contact me privately and I’ll be sure to keep you in the loop.
Regulars, newbies, and complete strangers alike are all more than welcome to join us! Get in touch.
tags: events, fun, nyc
Posted at 12:25 AM on 9-8-09 by Rob T Firefly
If you were at least week’s meeting, you might have been given a charming orange card alerting you to the existence of Alpha One Labs, New York City’s newest up-and-running hackerspace.
Psytek and the rest of the crew behind Alpha One Labs have gotten things going in practically no time. They’ve already got a physical space in Williamsburg, open meetings, open membership, and the first of their public classes will be happening soon. You can also follow Alpha One Labs on Twitter.
For more info on hackerspaces, visit hackerspaces.org.
tags: fun, nyc, plug, resource
After getting in touch with some attendees who, like us, come into the city from out-of-town, we must announce that due to Hurricane Earl, we won’t be attending tomorrow’s meeting. With areas like coastal New Jersey, Connecticut, and Long Island where many of us bridge-and-tunnel types live expected to be hardest-hit by the storm, with the additional possibilities of mass-transit failure and Citigroup locking up early, we feel we’re better off not advising the trip in for the meeting. For those of you who feel you can safely get there and back again and are willing to defiantly get a meeting going regardless, best of luck! We’d love to see photos.